In response to adverse rulings in numerous immigration cases, Stephen Miller is raising the specter of suspending habeas. His argument is factually and legally nuts, but it's worth explaining *why.*
I think he forgot he is Jewish, self loathing at that. His family disowned him and his grandparents must be doing flips. He’s an embarrassment to the Jewish people, me included.
That sounds correct. It was a thought I had too. Miller turns my stomach nearly equally as trump. (I never capitalize trump. My keyboard knows this. Ha)
He’s beyond an embarrassment to all humans. I’m not Jewish; I’m a green-eyed naturally blonde granddaughter of early 20th century immigrants from Norway (1911), where my family were starving under the yoke of Swedish rule. That’s not to say that some immigrants have more reason to come to America than others (there were witch burnings in Norway but no pogroms that I know of), just that you don’t have to be Jewish to loathe him. I loathe him, too.
He may have been reared in a Jewish home, and/or his mother may have been Jewish, but Mr. Miller talks and walks more like Eichmann. Judenrat is not new, novel, or unexpected. Power and control over others is a response from cowards. It is astounding that the "relative" lap of luxury of Santa Monica High produces such phony pricks as Miller. D. Horowitz, etal are fearmongers of the worst sort.
According to AI, this is his family history. Stephen Miller’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Wolf Lieb Glotzer, and his wife, Bessie, emigrated from Antopol, a village in present-day Belarus, to the United States on January 7, 1903, aboard the S.S. Moltke. They fled the Russian Empire to escape the anti-Jewish pogroms that were prevalent between 1903 and 1906.
Upon arrival in the U.S., the family anglicized their surname from Glotzer to Glosser. This was a common practice among immigrants seeking to assimilate and avoid discrimination. The Glosser family eventually settled in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where they established Glosser Bros. Department Store, which grew into a successful retail business.
Connection to Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller’s mother, Miriam Glosser, is a descendant of this family. Therefore, while Stephen Miller has always carried the surname Miller, his maternal lineage traces back to the Glotzer/Glosser family. His uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, has publicly discussed their family’s immigrant history, emphasizing the contrast between their refugee background and Stephen Miller’s stance on immigration policies. 
It is my understanding that he is married, that in its self begs a question. What person in their right mind would cozy up with this nazi? Okay, rhetorical, it answers its self doesn't it?
I agree that Miller is pure evil. As for ignorant, I'm not sure. In this particular case, my bet would be that he very well knows everything Vladeck so ably explains here. Miller is simply twisting and perverting the facts, then coming out and speaking in a very learned, authoritative tone, figuring the MAGAs will buy it. And they will.
Sadly many Americans have never received a basic education in the Constitution.
Even more concerning is that few reporters seem to know the basics, or choose not to use their articles as opportunities to teach their readers (e.g., about habeus corpus, due process, free speech, etc.). We should demand more of corporate media. Regardless of political affiliation, we can't expect citizens to stand up to dis/misinformation if the media fails to do its job.
Let’s not forget that Miller is NOT a lawyer, so his interpretation of laws is not based on anything other than what he wants it to be. He’s the one who told 🍊in a press conference that SCOTUS ruled in THEIR favor 9-0. Of course 🍊doesn’t bother to read or check for himself and blindly believes it bc it hits his narrative.
Very true, but unfortunately, Democrats are just as misinformed about the Constitution. I lost count of how many times I've seen comments saying "Hate speech is not free speech!"
Yes, the First Amendment doesn't protect all speech. I was referring to the kind of speech that the Supreme Court has explicitly declared to be protected, such as the speech of Westboro Baptist Church protesters (Snyder v. Phelps), which is hate speech by any reasonable definition. Their right to express their hatred in the way they did was defended by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, among other Supreme Court justices. I'm not sure when Americans stopped understanding the purpose and importance of the First Amendment.
It should be noted that Gollum, jr is NOT an attorney. But also it should be noted that he is running the country. The Convict-in-Chief is too far gone to effectively rule and that's just the way his troll shop aka the Cabinet likes it. They rule, he cheats at golf and babbles lies to the MAGAts. All is well in their world. The trolls will never invoke the 25 Amendment, they are having too much fun. But, they are not protected by that idiotic Supreme Court ruling. Arrest and impeach.
Never is a long time and Tr*mp is failing fast. Was it Spitting Image that did a hilarious “Weekend at Bernie's’ with a dead Soviet dictator? (Chernenko?) But Tr*mp's cadaver will he harder to lug about.
Stephen Miller is not an attorney. He does not have a legal education, no experience in practicing the law, and has not passed any bar exam. Why don't reporters call him out on this? Every time I see him, he reminds me of one of the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, whose face is melted when the lid of the Ark of the Covenant is removed. He also reminds me of students who didn't do the readings or studying (retired academic here) for an exam but who try to BS their way through with an illogical and nonsensical essay, and then complain about their grade. That Trump listens to him is frightening but worse is the fact that none of the Republican lawyers in Congress call him out.
Isn’t that the truth! It is unbelievable that every politician who holds a law degree is ‘going along’ with this line of argument the WH and Miller is putting out. It is infuriating that people who are in the Senate and the House are NOT speaking out against this lawless talk that is coming forth from Trump and his WH, and his underlings like this Miller and others like him!
I am a Republican and I am getting fed up with the gutless people in office who are ‘supporting’ this utter nonsense by their ‘silence.’
These times are too dangerous for spineless politicians; we as a people in this country need Statesmen and Stateswomen who will stand up to the bent this administration is advancing along!! They are clearly signaling with every day their intent on operating outside the laws of our nation…. the very laws that have made our nation the outstanding country that it has been. And will ONLY continue to be if we ALL stand on the tenets of what has made us this great of a Nation! Speak Up!, and Speak Out Politicians!! You better believe that I am going to let our elected Senators and Representatives from our State of Florida that’s in the Nation’s Capitol that we, the people in this state are affixing our sight (binoculars!) on them from this point forward with the message that if they want to continue representing us up there, that they better start DOING IT and not just be sitting idly by and acquiescing as certain ones in power tear away at this wonderful fabric that our country has been built with! Wake up Americans!!
Thanks for this. I was losing my mind over this, but you put a more rational perspective (than mine) on it. I agree that this is a thinly veiled threat to judges which is likely to backfire. I hope that is all it is. Scary stuff.
Just because someone has Jewish ancestry doesn't mean he has ANY faith. Much of the MAGA movement is made up of people who claim to be Christian, but don't follow the most fundamental teachings of Christ -- to love their neighbor, which Christ defined as EVERYONE in his parable of the Good Samaritan.
I don't claim myself of the Christian faith, nor do I attend church, as I don't believe in organized religion. HOWEVER! I do believe in Christ, and enjoy reading his parables. I also believe in the Golden Rule. One does not have to be a Christian to live as Christ did in the NT.
I'm not so generous as you are, I honestly don't think it's too soon to use the word, "evil". In fact it's shaping up as the right time, leaning towards too late. If not now, when?
Miller not only makes an implicit threat against the federal judiciary, but provides yet another example of why the judiciary should not feel compelled to offer the Trump administration any “presumption of regularity.” Judges and Justices involved with these various court challenges to the Trump administration should feel justified in maintaining a health skepticism, even in matters of immigration, instead of offering the usual deference when so many in the Executive branch continue to make public statements showing their ignorance of (or blatant disregard for) the Constitution and our rule of law.
I think your statement re "presumption of regularity" is a key point. trump, et al behave like mafiosi, while the judiciary continues to offer deference to the executive branch. It's like the judiciary is lining up for battle in even rows and snappy uniforms and the mafiosi is chucking molotov cocktails at them and hiding.
I don't know where you store all the information you have, but I'll just say I'm envious of your storage capacity. At 68, I fear mine is in need of an upgrade, at least from k to m, as you're apparently at t.
Keep on educating we lay people, I'm swimming as quickly as possible.
Learning this much about the law at age 58 is overwhelming. Like, why? I want to spend my free time reading novels (and some nonfiction), hiking, and hanging out with my family— not listening to every podcast about legal matters and reading every Substack.
Understand completely. My family is one daughter and a grandson living in another city. I too enjoy reading various novels of different genres. Currently reading, The Unwelcome Man, by Waldo Frank. I listen to much of Substack on earbuds while cycling around in my, sometimes too calm, neighborhood as well. I'm actually surprised that I'm as interested in the finer details of the law, now in life I suspect it has a tad bit to do with our present situation and POTUS. Also, I'm not certain to be honest, but this current SCOTUS appears to me as the most biased, politically speaking, that I can recall. Especially after the Roe upset. But, I'm definitely not a historian on our SCOTUS.
I call it the Third Eye. I used to wish Trump to drop dead from an MI. But he's such a Buffoon as to not be taken seriously. It's that very INSIDIOUS Herr Heinrich Himmle...erm... Stephen Miller who we really need to keep an eye on. If he was given total freedom to get rid of all races except whites, he would have started a genocide-style eradication.
Thanks for your timely explanation. Miller is clearly sending up a trial balloon to see if anyone takes a pot shot at it. I hope the damn balloon gets shot down. But I have no faith that Congress will do squat. Looks like it is time for us suburban scaredy-cats to take to the streets in protest.
Past time. I'm still bewildered at the fact we weren't in the streets enmass after the immunity ruling. Evil itself is ruling, when is the correct time or what 'single' event will be the correct signal?
The BBC reports that, in response to the release of Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk of Tufts U. from detention, the Dept. of Homeland Security said:
"Visas provided to foreign students to live and study in the United States are a privilege not a right.
"The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system, and will continue to fight for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country."
DHS apparently asserts unbridled discretion to revoke visas at will. But if you have a visa, you're not here unlawfully in the sense of undocumented immigrants. Even if a visa is a "privilege not a right," can it be revoked for reasons that violate constitutional rights, such as suppression of free speech? And does revocation of a visa implicate a liberty interest triggering a due process right to some kind of hearing? Even if not, surely DHS can't just ignore regulations governing visa grants and revocations, no?
Thank you for your thoughtful explanation. I feel a little bit better …but still don’t put it past them to try this and make everyone’s lives even more chaotic.
I think he forgot he is Jewish, self loathing at that. His family disowned him and his grandparents must be doing flips. He’s an embarrassment to the Jewish people, me included.
Apparently Miller has forgotten which group is next after the white christian nationalists are done with the trans, black and brown people.
Exactly
Olivia Troye who served in Trump 1.0 told Charlie Sykes that he is as off putting in daily life as he is in his policies.
A slimy Gollum in the White House.
Doesn’t surprise me. How does his wife even look at him.
Troye said she knew both of them before they got married and they were two peas in a pod.
That sounds correct. It was a thought I had too. Miller turns my stomach nearly equally as trump. (I never capitalize trump. My keyboard knows this. Ha)
A Shanda fir di goyim.
er iz drek aoyf mayne shikh.
Please elaborate, and translate too, thank you!
He is the dirt on my shoes in Yiddish.
He is a full fledged Nazi.
A Jewish Nazi, imagine that. I’m glad my survivor parents are not here to see this.
He’s beyond an embarrassment to all humans. I’m not Jewish; I’m a green-eyed naturally blonde granddaughter of early 20th century immigrants from Norway (1911), where my family were starving under the yoke of Swedish rule. That’s not to say that some immigrants have more reason to come to America than others (there were witch burnings in Norway but no pogroms that I know of), just that you don’t have to be Jewish to loathe him. I loathe him, too.
He may have been reared in a Jewish home, and/or his mother may have been Jewish, but Mr. Miller talks and walks more like Eichmann. Judenrat is not new, novel, or unexpected. Power and control over others is a response from cowards. It is astounding that the "relative" lap of luxury of Santa Monica High produces such phony pricks as Miller. D. Horowitz, etal are fearmongers of the worst sort.
According to AI, this is his family history. Stephen Miller’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Wolf Lieb Glotzer, and his wife, Bessie, emigrated from Antopol, a village in present-day Belarus, to the United States on January 7, 1903, aboard the S.S. Moltke. They fled the Russian Empire to escape the anti-Jewish pogroms that were prevalent between 1903 and 1906.
Upon arrival in the U.S., the family anglicized their surname from Glotzer to Glosser. This was a common practice among immigrants seeking to assimilate and avoid discrimination. The Glosser family eventually settled in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where they established Glosser Bros. Department Store, which grew into a successful retail business.
Connection to Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller’s mother, Miriam Glosser, is a descendant of this family. Therefore, while Stephen Miller has always carried the surname Miller, his maternal lineage traces back to the Glotzer/Glosser family. His uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, has publicly discussed their family’s immigrant history, emphasizing the contrast between their refugee background and Stephen Miller’s stance on immigration policies. 
I have responded to his tweets with the word “Shanda” many times.
I’m second generation Holocaust survivor. My Dad’s parents were murdered, my maternal grandmother spoke Yiddish and German to us.
Me too.
It is my understanding that he is married, that in its self begs a question. What person in their right mind would cozy up with this nazi? Okay, rhetorical, it answers its self doesn't it?
He’s almost worse than Musk‼️
Miller is pure evil. Ignorant and evil.
I agree that Miller is pure evil. As for ignorant, I'm not sure. In this particular case, my bet would be that he very well knows everything Vladeck so ably explains here. Miller is simply twisting and perverting the facts, then coming out and speaking in a very learned, authoritative tone, figuring the MAGAs will buy it. And they will.
Sadly many Americans have never received a basic education in the Constitution.
Even more concerning is that few reporters seem to know the basics, or choose not to use their articles as opportunities to teach their readers (e.g., about habeus corpus, due process, free speech, etc.). We should demand more of corporate media. Regardless of political affiliation, we can't expect citizens to stand up to dis/misinformation if the media fails to do its job.
Let’s not forget that Miller is NOT a lawyer, so his interpretation of laws is not based on anything other than what he wants it to be. He’s the one who told 🍊in a press conference that SCOTUS ruled in THEIR favor 9-0. Of course 🍊doesn’t bother to read or check for himself and blindly believes it bc it hits his narrative.
All true, Ana. Still, I doubt he's as ignorant as he lets on. I really doubt he actually believes that SCOTUS ruled in the orange blob's favor, 9-0.
Oh, he’s definitely no dummy… he’s just a manipulator, liar and Nazi facist drunk on power.
Very true, but unfortunately, Democrats are just as misinformed about the Constitution. I lost count of how many times I've seen comments saying "Hate speech is not free speech!"
Guess it depends on the speech. Not everything that's uttered is legal. But I get your point.
Yes, the First Amendment doesn't protect all speech. I was referring to the kind of speech that the Supreme Court has explicitly declared to be protected, such as the speech of Westboro Baptist Church protesters (Snyder v. Phelps), which is hate speech by any reasonable definition. Their right to express their hatred in the way they did was defended by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, among other Supreme Court justices. I'm not sure when Americans stopped understanding the purpose and importance of the First Amendment.
Thank you for so deftly dissecting Miller's statement and explaining it so clearly.
Yes! This really clearly explains how Habeas works and exactly what Miller/gollum is trying to do. This is very helpful to me.
It should be noted that Gollum, jr is NOT an attorney. But also it should be noted that he is running the country. The Convict-in-Chief is too far gone to effectively rule and that's just the way his troll shop aka the Cabinet likes it. They rule, he cheats at golf and babbles lies to the MAGAts. All is well in their world. The trolls will never invoke the 25 Amendment, they are having too much fun. But, they are not protected by that idiotic Supreme Court ruling. Arrest and impeach.
Miller and Vought, don't forget Russ, a true fascist..........
Never is a long time and Tr*mp is failing fast. Was it Spitting Image that did a hilarious “Weekend at Bernie's’ with a dead Soviet dictator? (Chernenko?) But Tr*mp's cadaver will he harder to lug about.
Stephen Miller is not an attorney. He does not have a legal education, no experience in practicing the law, and has not passed any bar exam. Why don't reporters call him out on this? Every time I see him, he reminds me of one of the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, whose face is melted when the lid of the Ark of the Covenant is removed. He also reminds me of students who didn't do the readings or studying (retired academic here) for an exam but who try to BS their way through with an illogical and nonsensical essay, and then complain about their grade. That Trump listens to him is frightening but worse is the fact that none of the Republican lawyers in Congress call him out.
The fact that many of those in Maga are "licensed and practicing" lawyers casts serious doubt on the efficacy of the "legal" profession.
Isn’t that the truth! It is unbelievable that every politician who holds a law degree is ‘going along’ with this line of argument the WH and Miller is putting out. It is infuriating that people who are in the Senate and the House are NOT speaking out against this lawless talk that is coming forth from Trump and his WH, and his underlings like this Miller and others like him!
I am a Republican and I am getting fed up with the gutless people in office who are ‘supporting’ this utter nonsense by their ‘silence.’
These times are too dangerous for spineless politicians; we as a people in this country need Statesmen and Stateswomen who will stand up to the bent this administration is advancing along!! They are clearly signaling with every day their intent on operating outside the laws of our nation…. the very laws that have made our nation the outstanding country that it has been. And will ONLY continue to be if we ALL stand on the tenets of what has made us this great of a Nation! Speak Up!, and Speak Out Politicians!! You better believe that I am going to let our elected Senators and Representatives from our State of Florida that’s in the Nation’s Capitol that we, the people in this state are affixing our sight (binoculars!) on them from this point forward with the message that if they want to continue representing us up there, that they better start DOING IT and not just be sitting idly by and acquiescing as certain ones in power tear away at this wonderful fabric that our country has been built with! Wake up Americans!!
Thanks for this. I was losing my mind over this, but you put a more rational perspective (than mine) on it. I agree that this is a thinly veiled threat to judges which is likely to backfire. I hope that is all it is. Scary stuff.
Dear Melissa, this pronouncement is not thinly veiled. It is a direct threat to judges and the notion of legal authority
Profoundly, profoundly dangerous territory.
Pure mafia boss tactics. Except from a foot soldier, not a capo.
More of an caporegime, an underboss. Bearing in mind, that the boss is utterly incompetent.
I hesitate to use the word “evil”, but Miller certainly belongs in that conversation.
And as others have already pointed out, he’s an embarrassment to our faith (Judaism).
Just because someone has Jewish ancestry doesn't mean he has ANY faith. Much of the MAGA movement is made up of people who claim to be Christian, but don't follow the most fundamental teachings of Christ -- to love their neighbor, which Christ defined as EVERYONE in his parable of the Good Samaritan.
I don't claim myself of the Christian faith, nor do I attend church, as I don't believe in organized religion. HOWEVER! I do believe in Christ, and enjoy reading his parables. I also believe in the Golden Rule. One does not have to be a Christian to live as Christ did in the NT.
Sadly many people who assert that they are Jewish are part of maga. Fear and loathing in the USofA
I'm not so generous as you are, I honestly don't think it's too soon to use the word, "evil". In fact it's shaping up as the right time, leaning towards too late. If not now, when?
EEVILLLLLLLLLL
Steve, in the paragraph beginning "First" you say "because courts have ruled against the courts". Did you mean "against the government?
I sure did! Fixing now.
Thanks for the catch. This is what I get when I write ... fast.
Thanks! I had the same question.
Miller not only makes an implicit threat against the federal judiciary, but provides yet another example of why the judiciary should not feel compelled to offer the Trump administration any “presumption of regularity.” Judges and Justices involved with these various court challenges to the Trump administration should feel justified in maintaining a health skepticism, even in matters of immigration, instead of offering the usual deference when so many in the Executive branch continue to make public statements showing their ignorance of (or blatant disregard for) the Constitution and our rule of law.
I think your statement re "presumption of regularity" is a key point. trump, et al behave like mafiosi, while the judiciary continues to offer deference to the executive branch. It's like the judiciary is lining up for battle in even rows and snappy uniforms and the mafiosi is chucking molotov cocktails at them and hiding.
I don't know where you store all the information you have, but I'll just say I'm envious of your storage capacity. At 68, I fear mine is in need of an upgrade, at least from k to m, as you're apparently at t.
Keep on educating we lay people, I'm swimming as quickly as possible.
Learning this much about the law at age 58 is overwhelming. Like, why? I want to spend my free time reading novels (and some nonfiction), hiking, and hanging out with my family— not listening to every podcast about legal matters and reading every Substack.
Understand completely. My family is one daughter and a grandson living in another city. I too enjoy reading various novels of different genres. Currently reading, The Unwelcome Man, by Waldo Frank. I listen to much of Substack on earbuds while cycling around in my, sometimes too calm, neighborhood as well. I'm actually surprised that I'm as interested in the finer details of the law, now in life I suspect it has a tad bit to do with our present situation and POTUS. Also, I'm not certain to be honest, but this current SCOTUS appears to me as the most biased, politically speaking, that I can recall. Especially after the Roe upset. But, I'm definitely not a historian on our SCOTUS.
I had to archive 65 plus years in the workforce information from my brain. 😁
One might ask where this wingnut went to law school....but not surprisingly, he didn't....:(
Didn’t stop him starting an organization called AF Legal. He really is top of my wish list for people to drop dead.
I call it the Third Eye. I used to wish Trump to drop dead from an MI. But he's such a Buffoon as to not be taken seriously. It's that very INSIDIOUS Herr Heinrich Himmle...erm... Stephen Miller who we really need to keep an eye on. If he was given total freedom to get rid of all races except whites, he would have started a genocide-style eradication.
He’s a total psychopath. Real life Voldemort
He reversed Popoks Legal AF
Perhaps. Popok probably didn’t sue because it’s technically American First Legal which isn’t really very close to Legal As Fuck 😁
Ha...thats ripe. I was wondering about that.
Yeah. DJT was scary with is ignorance. This guy is scary with his evil.
Thanks for your timely explanation. Miller is clearly sending up a trial balloon to see if anyone takes a pot shot at it. I hope the damn balloon gets shot down. But I have no faith that Congress will do squat. Looks like it is time for us suburban scaredy-cats to take to the streets in protest.
Past time. I'm still bewildered at the fact we weren't in the streets enmass after the immunity ruling. Evil itself is ruling, when is the correct time or what 'single' event will be the correct signal?
The Scotus Immunity ruling....and Citizens United. Thomas and Alito are an embarrassment to the promise of American political ethics.
As is Roberts. Bastard!
The BBC reports that, in response to the release of Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk of Tufts U. from detention, the Dept. of Homeland Security said:
"Visas provided to foreign students to live and study in the United States are a privilege not a right.
"The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system, and will continue to fight for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country."
DHS apparently asserts unbridled discretion to revoke visas at will. But if you have a visa, you're not here unlawfully in the sense of undocumented immigrants. Even if a visa is a "privilege not a right," can it be revoked for reasons that violate constitutional rights, such as suppression of free speech? And does revocation of a visa implicate a liberty interest triggering a due process right to some kind of hearing? Even if not, surely DHS can't just ignore regulations governing visa grants and revocations, no?
Thank you for your thoughtful explanation. I feel a little bit better …but still don’t put it past them to try this and make everyone’s lives even more chaotic.